1915–16 Buffalo Bulls men's basketball team

The 1915–16 Buffalo Bulls men's basketball team represented the University of Buffalo during the 1915–16 NCAA college men's basketball season. The head coach was Art Powell, coaching his first season with the Bulls.[1]

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University at Buffalo
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The State University of New York at Buffalo is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States. It is commonly referred to as the University at Buffalo or SUNY Buffalo, the university was founded in 1846 as a private college, but in 1962 merged with the State University of New York system. By enrollment, UB is the largest in the SUNY system, UB also has the largest endowment and research funding, as a comprehensive university center in the SUNY system. As of 2017, the university enrolls 29,806 students in 13 colleges, the university offers over 100 bachelors,205 masters,84 doctoral, and 10 professional areas of study. According to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, the University at Buffalo is a Doctoral University with the Highest research activity. In 1989, UB was elected to the Association of American Universities, the university was founded by U. S. President and U. S. Vice President, Millard Fillmore, who served as the schools first chancellor, in the Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education 2017 inaugural ranking, UB was ranked as the #1 public university in New York and #28 in the nation. Buffalo has consistently placed in the top cluster of U. S, U. S. News and World Reports 2017 edition of Americas Best Colleges ranked UB 99th on their list of best national universities and 43rd among public universities. City leaders of Buffalo sought to establish a university in the city from the earliest days of Buffalo and this university was chartered by the state on April 8,1836. However, the collapsed and no classes were ever offered. James Platt White was instrumental in obtaining a charter for the University of Buffalo from the legislature in 1846. He also taught the first class of 89 men in obstetrics, State Assemblyman Nathan K. Hall was also particularly active in procuring the charter. The doors first opened to students in 1847 and after associating with a hospital for teaching purposes, founder Millard Fillmore served as the schools first chancellor. Upon his ascension to the presidency after President Taylors death, Fillmore stayed on as part-time chancellor, the first lectures were delivered in a wooden building over the old post office, corner of Seneca and Washington streets. The first building built for the university was a stone building at the corner of Main and Virginia streets, built in 1849–50, through donations, public subscription. There were continuous expansions to the medical programs, including a separate pharmacy division. In 1887, a law school was organized in Buffalo, which became associated with Niagara University just to the north of Buffalo. After four years, in 1891, the law school was acquired by the University of Buffalo as the University of Buffalo Law School, the establishment may have been influenced by the 1910 Flexner Report which criticized the preparation of the medical students at the university

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Carnegie Mellon University
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Carnegie Mellon University is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools, in 1967, the Carnegie Institute of Technology merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to form Carnegie Mellon University. The universitys 140-acre main campus is 3 miles from Downtown Pittsburgh, john Heinz III College of Information Systems and Public Policy, and the School of Computer Science. The university also has campuses in Qatar and Silicon Valley, with degree-granting programs in six continents, Carnegie Mellon consistently ranks in the top 25 in the national U. S. News & World Report rankings. It is home to the world’s first degree-granting Robotics and Drama programs, the university spent $242 million on research in 2015. Carnegie Mellon counts 13,650 students from 114 countries, over 100,000 living alumni, Carnegies vision was to open a vocational training school for the sons and daughters of working-class Pittsburghers. Carnegie was inspired for the design of his school by the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, in 1912 the institution changed its name to Carnegie Institute of Technology and began offering four-year degrees. The Mellon Institute of Industrial Research was founded in 1913 by banker and industrialist brothers Andrew, Mellon in honor of their father, Thomas Mellon, the patriarch of the Mellon family. The Institute began as an organization which performed work for government. In 1927, the Mellon Institute incorporated as an independent nonprofit, in 1938, the Mellon Institutes iconic building was completed and it moved to its new, and current, location on Fifth Avenue. In 1967, with support from Paul Mellon, Carnegie Tech merged with the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research to become Carnegie Mellon University, Carnegie Mellons coordinate womens college, the Margaret Morrison Carnegie College closed in 1973 and merged its academic programs with the rest of the university. The industrial research mission of the Mellon Institute survived the merger as the Carnegie Mellon Research Institute and continued doing work on contract to industry, CMRI closed in 2001 and its programs were subsumed by other parts of the university or spun off into independent entities. Carnegie Mellons 140-acre main campus is three miles from downtown Pittsburgh, between Schenley Park and the Squirrel Hill, Shadyside, and Oakland neighborhoods, Carnegie Mellon is bordered to the west by the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Carnegie Mellon owns 81 buildings in the Oakland and Squirrel Hill neighborhoods of Pittsburgh, for decades the center of student life on campus was Skibo Hall, the Universitys student union. Built in the 1950s, Skibo Halls design was typical of Mid-Century Modern architecture, the original Skibo was razed in the summer of 1994 and replaced by a new student union that is fully wi-fi enabled. Known as University Center, the building was dedicated in 1996, in 2014, Carnegie Mellon re-dedicated the University Center as the Cohon University Center in recognition of the eighth president of the university, Jared Cohon. A large grassy area known as the Cut forms the backbone of the campus, the Cut was formed by filling in a ravine with soil from a nearby hill that was leveled to build the College of Fine Arts building. The northwestern part of the campus was acquired from the United States Bureau of Mines in the 1980s, the sculpture was controversial for its placement, the general lack of input that the campus community had, and its aesthetic appeal

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Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County. The city proper has a population of 304,391. The metropolitan population of 2,353,045 is the largest in both the Ohio Valley and Appalachia, the second-largest in Pennsylvania, and the 26th-largest in the U. S. The city features 30 skyscrapers, two inclines, a fortification and the Point State Park at the confluence of the rivers. Aside from steel, Pittsburgh has led in manufacturing of aluminum, glass, shipbuilding, petroleum, foods, sports, transportation, computing, autos, and electronics. For part of the 20th century, Pittsburgh was behind only New York and Chicago in corporate headquarters employment, Americas 1980s deindustrialization laid off area blue-collar workers and thousands of downtown white-collar workers when the longtime Pittsburgh-based world headquarters moved out. The area has served also as the federal agency headquarters for cyber defense, software engineering, robotics, energy research. The area is home to 68 colleges and universities, including research and development leaders Carnegie Mellon University, the region is a hub for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, sustainable energy, and energy extraction. Pittsburgh was named in 1758 by General John Forbes, in honor of British statesman William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham. The current pronunciation, which is unusual in English speaking countries, is almost certainly a result of a printing error in some copies of the City Charter of March 18,1816. The error was repeated commonly enough throughout the rest of the 19th century that the pronunciation was lost. After a public campaign the original spelling was restored by the United States Board on Geographic Names in 1911. The area of the Ohio headwaters was long inhabited by the Shawnee, the first known European to enter the region was the French explorer/trader Robert de La Salle from Quebec during his 1669 expedition down the Ohio River. European pioneers, primarily Dutch, followed in the early 18th century, Michael Bezallion was the first to describe the forks of the Ohio in a 1717 manuscript, and later that year European fur traders established area posts and settlements. In 1749, French soldiers from Quebec launched an expedition to the forks to unite Canada with French Louisiana via the rivers, during 1753–54, the British hastily built Fort Prince George before a larger French force drove them off. The French built Fort Duquesne based on LaSalles 1669 claims, the French and Indian War, the North American front of the Seven Years War, began with the future Pittsburgh as its center. British General Edward Braddock was dispatched with Major George Washington as his aide to take Fort Duquesne, the British and colonial force were defeated at Braddocks Field. General John Forbes finally took the forks in 1758, Forbes began construction on Fort Pitt, named after William Pitt the Elder while the settlement was named Pittsborough

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Buffalo, New York
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Buffalo is a city in western New York state and the county seat of Erie County, on the eastern shores of Lake Erie at the head of the Niagara River. As of 2014, Buffalo is New York states 2nd-most populous city after New York City, the metropolitan area has a population of 1.13 million. After an economic downturn in the half of the 20th century, Buffalos economy has transitioned to sectors that include financial services, technology, biomedical engineering. Residents of Buffalo are called Buffalonians, the citys nicknames include The Queen City, The Nickel City and The City of Good Neighbors. The city of Buffalo received its name from a creek called Buffalo Creek. British military engineer Captain John Montresor made reference to Buffalo Creek in his journal of 1764, there are several theories regarding how Buffalo Creek received its name. In 1804, as principal agent opening the area for the Holland Land Company, Joseph Ellicott, designed a radial street and grid system that branches out from downtown like bicycle spokes similar to the street system he used in the nations capital. Although Ellicott named the settlement New Amsterdam, the name did not catch on, during the War of 1812, on December 30,1813, Buffalo was burned by British forces. The George Coit House 1818 and Samuel Schenck House 1823 are currently the oldest houses within the limits of the City of Buffalo, on October 26,1825, the Erie Canal was completed with Buffalo a port-of-call for settlers heading westward. At the time, the population was about 2,400, the Erie Canal brought about a surge in population and commerce, which led Buffalo to incorporate as a city in 1832. In 1845, construction began on the Macedonia Baptist Church, an important meeting place for the abolitionist movement, Buffalo was a terminus point of the Underground Railroad with many fugitive slaves crossing the Niagara River to Fort Erie, Ontario in search of freedom. During the 1840s, Buffalos port continued to develop, both passenger and commercial traffic expanded with some 93,000 passengers heading west from the port of Buffalo. Grain and commercial goods shipments led to repeated expansion of the harbor, in 1843, the worlds first steam-powered grain elevator was constructed by local merchant Joseph Dart and engineer Robert Dunbar. Darts Elevator enabled faster unloading of lake freighters along with the transshipment of grain in bulk from barges, canal boats, by 1850, the citys population was 81,000. At the dawn of the 20th century, local mills were among the first to benefit from hydroelectric power generated by the Niagara River, the city got the nickname City of Light at this time due to the widespread electric lighting. It was also part of the revolution, hosting the brass era car builders Pierce Arrow. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by an anarchist at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo on September 6,1901, McKinley died in the city eight days later and Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in at the Wilcox Mansion as the 26th President of the United States. The Great Depression of 1929–39 saw severe unemployment, especially working class men

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Jersey City, New Jersey
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Jersey City is the second-most-populous city in the U. S. state of New Jersey after Newark. It is the seat of Hudson County as well as the countys largest city. 7% from the 2010 United States Census, when the citys population was at 247,597, ranking the city the 75th-largest in the nation. Part of the New York metropolitan area, Jersey City is bounded on the east by the Hudson River and Upper New York Bay and on the west by the Hackensack River and Newark Bay. After a peak population of 316,715 measured in the 1930 Census, the land comprising what is now Jersey City was inhabited by the Lenape, a collection of tribes. After spending nine days surveying the area and meeting its inhabitants, by 1621, the Dutch West India Company was organized to manage this new territory and in June 1623, New Netherland became a Dutch province, with headquarters in New Amsterdam. Michael Reyniersz Pauw received a grant as patroon on the condition that he would establish a settlement of not fewer than fifty persons within four years. He chose the west bank of the North River and purchased the land from the Lenape and this grant is dated November 22,1630 and is the earliest known conveyance for what are now Hoboken and Jersey City. Pauw, however, was a landlord who neglected to populate the area and was obliged to sell his holdings back to the Company in 1633. That year, a house was built at Communipaw for Jan Evertsen Bout, superintendent of the colony, during Kiefts War, approximately eighty Lenapes were killed by the Dutch in a massacre at Pavonia on the night of February 25,1643. Scattered communities of farmsteads characterized the Dutch settlements at Pavonia, Communipaw, Harsimus, Paulus Hook, Hoebuck, Awiehaken, and other lands behind Kil van Kull. The first village established on what is now Bergen Square in 1660, among the oldest surviving houses in Jersey City are the Newkirk House, the Van Vorst Farmhouse, and the Van Wagenen House. During the American Revolutionary War, the area was in the hands of the British who controlled New York, in the Battle of Paulus Hook Major Light Horse Harry Lee attacked a British fortification on August 19,1779. During the 19th century, former slaves reached Jersey City on one of the four routes of the Underground Railroad that led to the city. The City of Jersey was incorporated by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on January 28,1820, from portions of Bergen Township, while the area was still a part of Bergen County. The city was reincorporated on January 23,1829, and again on February 22,1838, on February 22,1840, it became part of the newly created Hudson County. Soon after the Civil War, the idea arose of uniting all of the towns of Hudson County east of the Hackensack River into one municipality. A bill was approved by the legislature on April 2,1869. An element of the bill provide that only contiguous towns could be consolidated, while a majority of the voters across the county approved the merger, the only municipalities that had approved the consolidation plan and that adjoined Jersey City were Hudson City and Bergen City

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National Collegiate Athletic Association
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The National Collegiate Athletic Association is a non-profit association which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions, conferences, organizations, and individuals. It also organizes the programs of many colleges and universities in the United States and Canada. The organization is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 2014, the NCAA generated almost a billion dollars in revenue. 80 to 90% of this revenue was due to the Division I Mens Basketball Tournament and this revenue is then distributed back into various organizations and institutions across the United States. In August 1973, the current three-division setup of Division I, Division II, under NCAA rules, Division I and Division II schools can offer scholarships to athletes for playing a sport. Division III schools may not offer any athletic scholarships, generally, larger schools compete in Division I and smaller schools in II and III. Division I football was divided into I-A and I-AA in 1978. Subsequently, the term Division I-AAA was briefly added to delineate Division I schools which do not field a football program at all, in 2006, Divisions I-A and I-AA were respectively renamed the Football Bowl Subdivision and Football Championship Subdivision. Inter-collegiate sports began in the US in 1852 when crews from Harvard University, as other sports emerged, notably football and basketball, many of these same concepts and standards were adopted. Football, in particular, began to emerge as a marquee sport, the IAAUS was officially established on March 31,1906, and took its present name, the NCAA, in 1910. For several years, the NCAA was a group and rules-making body, but in 1921, the first NCAA national championship was conducted. Gradually, more rules committees were formed and more championships were created, a series of crises brought the NCAA to a crossroads after World War II. The Sanity Code – adopted to establish guidelines for recruiting and financial aid – failed to curb abuses, postseason football games were multiplying with little control, and member schools were increasingly concerned about how the new medium of television would affect football attendance. The complexity of problems and the growth in membership and championships demonstrated the need for full-time professional leadership. Walter Byers, previously an executive assistant, was named executive director in 1951. Byers wasted no time placing his stamp on the Association, as college athletics grew, the scope of the nations athletics programs diverged, forcing the NCAA to create a structure that recognized varying levels of emphasis. In 1973, the Associations membership was divided into three legislative and competitive divisions – I, II, and III, five years later in 1978, Division I members voted to create subdivisions I-A and I-AA in football. Until the 1980s, the association did not offer womens athletics, instead, the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, with nearly 1000 member schools, governed womens collegiate sports in the United States

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Victor E. Bull
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Bull is the mascot for the Buffalo Bulls, the athletic teams of the University at Buffalo in the State University of New York system, in Buffalo, New York, US. Victor is a blue bull. Victor performs at all Buffalo Bulls home football and basketball games, Bull was chosen as a member of the Capital One All America Mascot Team. The mascot contest was open to all NCAA Division I-A and I-AA school mascots representing collegiate football programs, the twelve finalists were chosen by a panel of judges composed of representatives from ESPN, Capital One, and the mascot community. The judging criteria included fan interaction, good sportsmanship, and community service involvement, the winner of the 2002 Capital One Mascot Challenge was Monte from the University of Montana. In 2013, Victor reached the Elite Eight stage of the SUNY Mascot Madness competition, earning 49% of the vote against Baxter, Victor was defeated by Baxter in a close race. Buffalos first unofficial mascot was an 175-pound bison head nicknamed Boscoe and it is unknown where the location of the bison head is now. In 1957, Buffalo acquired its first live mascot when Mike Todd, dexters originated in Ireland, and are miniature cattle. Buster was born on a farm in Western New York, and was presented to the school as part of Todds and Taylors visit with Buffalo Mayor Steven Pankow to celebrate Buffalos 125th anniversary. As Buster matured, he became increasingly bad-tempered, and was replaced by Buster II, the live mascot tradition at Buffalo continued until 1970, when the university discontinued NCAA Division I football. At Division III, however, the UB football team maintained a bull mascot, Buster and this mascot was incorporated into UB Bulls football and basketball until the arrival of Victor E. Bull. In 1997, as part of Buffalos preparation to return to the NCAA Division I, Bull was submitted by undergraduate student, Rustie Hill, and was selected as the winning entry. Shortly thereafter, in 1997, the department adopted the anthropomorphic Victor E, Bull as the schools new mascot. At the football home opener that year, Hill was invited out onto the field with Victor E, Bull as he was introduced to the fans. Bull was introduced as Victors sister in 2001, but has not been seen for many years, Victor also participates in other campus-related activities in addition to appearing at football and basketball games. In 2000, he was present at a Kids Safety Day sponsored by the Chiropractic Center in Cheektowaga, on Orientation Day at UB in 2008 for incoming freshmen, Victor led the students and their parents by singing UBs fight song. Victor was also present, mingling with fans, at the 32nd Empire State Games that were held at UB in 2010, in 2011, Victor was active in the Recycle Mania Tournament at UB, and in 2012, he participated in an event to help raise cancer awareness. Bull as a male UB student and he works out and plays sports to stay fit in order to be in costume for several hours for each event he works

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Alumni Arena (University at Buffalo)
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Alumni Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Amherst, New York. The arena is home to the State University of New York at Buffalo mens and womens teams, the womens volleyball team. The facility currently seats 6,100 people, the Recreation and Athletics Complex on the Universitys North Campus includes Alumni Arena, a $12.5 million Phase II Building and a $1.5 million outdoor playing fields complex. Alumni Arenas main gymnasium is home to the Bulls mens and womens teams, wrestling team. The arena used to more than 8,000 people. The student section was relocated with the renovations, before the renovations, the students used to generally sit behind the scorers table, from baseline to baseline, except immediately behind the players benches. Syracuses Carrier Dome is the only college basketball facility in the state that is larger. The volleyball court was constructed for the World University Games in 1993, the building includes three levels of offices, locker rooms, equipment and training-therapy rooms, seminar rooms, and racquetball courts. The Phase II Building on the side of Alumni Arena has an Olympic-sized swimming pool and a separate diving well, a triple gymnasium. Other areas are a practice room, two weight-training rooms, additional racquetball and squash courts, an erg room, and an aerobics room. Behind Alumni Arena, a playing fields complex provides lighted outdoor space for sports, including soccer, field hockey, softball, tennis, basketball, handball. In 2011, the lighting and sound systems in the arena were upgraded to state-of-the-art quality, a new video and scoring system was also installed. On February 3,2012, the Harlem Globetrotters played on the Bulls court, on August 22,2013, President Barack Obama spoke to a sold-out crowd at Alumni Arena about the rising costs of college tuition. University at Buffalo Stadium Amherst Audubon Field Alumni Arena - Buffalo Athletics

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Buffalo Bulls men's basketball
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The Buffalo Bulls mens basketball team represents the University at Buffalo in Buffalo, New York, United States. The team currently competes in the National Collegiate Athletic Association at the Division I level as a member of the Mid-American Conference East Division, Buffalo began play in 1915 and joined the MAC in 1998. The Bulls also have six appearances in the NCAA Mens Division II Basketball Championship between 1957 and 1965 and one appearance in the National Invitation Tournament and they are coached by Nate Oats, who was hired as head coach in April 2015. Home games are played at the 6, 100-seat Alumni Arena, the Bulls have appeared in the NCAA Division II Tournament six times. The Bulls have appeared in the National Invitation Tournament one time, the Buffalo Bulls play their home games at Alumni Arena, located in Amherst, New York. The arena seats 6,100 spectators and features a state of the art video-board, sound, and lighting systems

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Art Powell (coach)
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Arthur L. Powell was an American basketball and football player and coach. Powell was born in Toronto, Ontario in 1884 and was brought to Buffalo, as a teenager, Powell learned the game of basketball from the Buffalo Germans team. The Germans became the team in the country, playing against the best pro and amateur teams in the world. In 1961, the Buffalo Germans basketball team was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame, after graduating from Masten Park High School in Buffalo, he starred in basketball, baseball and football at Syracuse University in the early 1900s graduating in 1907. Although he was five feet four inches tall, he jumped center for the Syracuse basketball team and was named captain. He weighed less than 140 pounds but was the Syracuse football quarterback for three years, Powell began his basketball coaching career in 1907 at the University of Rochester. His 1909–10 Rochester basketball team finished with 16 wins and 2 losses, in 1912, Powell was recruited to Bloomington, Indiana, to serve as the head coach of the Indiana Hoosiers mens basketball team. He stayed just that one season finishing 5–11 and last in the Big Ten Conference, in 1915, Powell returned to Buffalo, and spent the next 27 years as the head coach of the Buffalo Bisons mens basketball program, from 1915 to 1943. He also coached the Buffalo Bisons football team from 1916 to 1921, powells 1930–31 team was 15–0, the best mark in Buffalo basketball history. When the University of Buffalo suspended intercollegiate athletics in 1943 for the duration of World War II, Powell left and his top achievement with the Canisius Golden Griffins was a victory over Nat Holmans CCNY team. When his career ended, Powell had coach mens basketball for 38+ seasons at the University of Rochester, Indiana University, University of Buffalo and he died in Kenmore, NY at the age of 85 in 1969. In 1984, he was inducted into the University at Buffalo Athletics Hall of Fame, art Powell at the College Football Data Warehouse

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Canton, New York
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Canton is a town in St. Lawrence County, New York, United States. The population was 10,995 at the 2010 census, the town contains two villages, one also named Canton, the other named Rensselaer Falls. The town is named after the port of Canton in China. Canton is the home of St. Lawrence University and SUNY Canton, Canton Central School District is centered in the village of Canton. The first settler arrived in 1800, the town was organized/incorporated on May 14th,1805 from part of the town of Lisbon. The name Canton was supposedly selected due to interests in the China trade. Canton was one of the ten towns of the county. In 1845, the community of Canton was incorporated as a village, the Brick Chapel Church and Cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has an area of 105.9 square miles. The Grasse River flows northward through the centre of St. Lawrence County, U. S. Route 11 is a northeast-southwest highway, which intersects New York State Route 68 and New York State Route 310 at Canton village. As of 2000, the census reported there were 10,334 people,3,198 households. The population density was 98.6 people per square mile, there were 3,515 housing units at an average density of 33.5 per square mile. 91. 81% White,4. 49% Black or African American,0. 54% Native American,0. 99% Asian,1. 02% from other races, hispanic or Latino of any race were 1. 92% of the population. 29. 8% of all households were made up of individuals and 11. 0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older, the average household size was 2.40 and the average family size was 2.99. In the town, the population was out with 18. 9% under the age of 18,29. 6% from 18 to 24,21. 8% from 25 to 44,18. 4% from 45 to 64. The median age was 27 years, for every 100 females there were 99.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.6 males, the median income for a household in the town was $36,875, and the median income for a family was $43,819. Males had an income of $33,993 versus $25,989 for females

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Olean Armory
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Olean Armory is a historic armory building located at Olean in Cattaraugus County, New York. It was designed by State architects Isaac G. Perry and Lewis Pilcher and it consists of a two-story, Tudor inspired administration building constructed in 1919, with an attached Romanesque drill shed constructed in 1890. The building features a number of castellated style features such as turrets and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. Historical marker/historic landmark for Olean Armory in Olean, NY